Lesson 5: End of the world

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Lesson 5: End of the world

Are we doomed or is there a good end?

Program

- Discuss previous class

- End of the world: Scientific view

- Eschatology and religious views

- Assignment

What would you do of the end of the world was near?

Assignment 1, 2, 5

- Page 30-31

- Question 1, 2, 5

1. Personal answer, reasons are required

2. For example: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, people working for the resistance

Scientific Views

Go to page 32-33

Make question 1, 2 and 3

Eschatology

Takes notes!

- End time or end of the world as we know it

- Negative world events will reach a climax

- Apocalyps:  religious belief that the end of the world is imminent. 

- End will be caused by some  catastrophic global event

- After the end -> chosen people will live in peaceful times

End of the world dates

The Year 1000

The first Christians believed that the world would soon come to an end.

Then they came to believe that the year 1000 would be the year in which Christ would return to earth to divide humanity between heaven and hell.

Maya Calendar

The Mayan people lived in Mexico and were defeated and almost exterminated by Spanish colonists.

Their calendar ran until December 21, 2012: reason for people to panic and think the world was going to end...

Sabbatai Zevi - a false messiah

- 1492 Jews were expelled from Spain

- Persecutions

- People sold their belongings and moved to Jerusalem

Heaven's Gate 

- New religious movement

-  Christian millenarianism, New Age, and ufology, and as such it has been characterized as a UFO religion

- Strong belief the end time is near

- Comet Hale-Bopp

Thirty-nine members of the Heaven's Gate cult committed mass suicide in March 1997 with the intention of teleporting to a spaceship which they believed was flying behind the comet.

Jehova's Witnesses

- We live in the final days of this world

- Non-members will be destroyed --> therefore they go door to door to convert people

- Some events are seen as proof, like corona epidemic

Assignment: End of the World

Make a movie/comic/story about the end of the world as someone who has experienced it. 

Use an existing story from any of the religions discussed or pick your own religion

Step by step plan

- First research the story, make sure you have all the right information

- Choose a character: you can be anyone that is in a way part of the story (messiah, critic, bystander, believer, etc.)

- Think of a story line

- Make clear what the values and morals of this believe are

Requirements (T4)

Comic: minimum 2 pages (A4), correct English,  correct and complete information, neat finish, good/entertaining story -line

Story: minimum 1000 words, correct English, correct and complete information, neat finish, good/entertaining story -line

Stop motion: 10-15 frames per second, 0:30-1:00 minute

correct English, correct and complete information, good/entertaining story-line

DEADLINE

2nd of April during class

NB: if you have a digital assignment make sure you have handed at the beginning of class on 2nd of April

You have time to work on the assignment during class!